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Launch pad hosts beautiful business awards

‘Launch Pad’, an initiative created by the North East Enterprise Bond to transform enterprise culture across the region, made a visit to South Tyneside College last week when the winner was announced from the ‘It’s a Beautiful Business’ challenge - a competition which saw ambitious Hair and Beauty students tackling real-life business situations.

The project was made possible thanks to a partnership between Launch Pad and UCanB - a scheme funded through South Tyneside Means Business and managed by TEDCO (The Tyneside Economic Development Company) to help spread awareness of enterprise and self-employment in South Tyneside. The competition attracted over 50 entrants who boarded the Launch Pad on 28 April and 1 May.

Diane Fisher-Naylor, Chief Executive of the North East Enterprise Bond, said: “The quality of entries for the challenge was very high, as was the ambition of many of the students from South Tyneside College to set up their own business. Launch Pad provided an opportunity for the students to consider how they would respond to real life business situations. More importantly, it linked them up to the UCanB business coaches who can provide hands on support in the future.”

The winner of the challenge, Faye Barnes, commented: “I’ve always wanted to run my own salon and get involved in all aspects of the business. I have enrolled on a one-day course through TEDCO which I’m really looking forward to and I currently have one year of study left at South Tyneside College, after which I am hoping I’ll be ready to launch my business.”

For more information about the North East Enterprise Bond and Launch Pad, visit www.launchpadnortheast.org.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .